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I see where you're coming from, but Microsoft already builds an entire office sweet as native apps across 4 of the 5 platforms you enumerated.
by richardstephens 5y ago
I see where you're coming from, but Microsoft already builds an entire office sweet as native apps across 4 of the 5 platforms you enumerated.
- justapassenger 5y agoWhich means they know extremely well what a costly and complex process it is.
- richardstephens 5y agoI'm not denying that it's a complex or costly process, just lamenting that they don't care enough. Of course, the problem is compounded for me by the fact that at any given moment I end up having 3 different enterprise chat apps open on my work laptop for collaboration with outside parties.
- machello13 5y agoAnd the result of that knowledge is a worse experience for users. However you frame it, users are losing because MS doesn’t want to shell out the cash for good UX.
- asdjlkadsjklads 5y agoLosing, but still buying in.
- machello13 5y agoThe users aren’t really, their bosses are, most likely because it gets bundled in a contract with Office and Exchange etc.
- Demiurge 5y agoPerhaps the effort/reward they get from office release does not apply to a freemium chat service that’s constantly updating?
- venfen 5y agoActually the Office team is integration more and more React components in the office programs.
- eloff 5y agoOffice is special because it's such a cash cow they can afford to make 4 different versions of it.
- tgv 5y agoBut the mac version has never been the same as the Windows version.
- ripley12 5y agoOutlook is switching to WebView2-based UI like this soon. As for Excel, here's its PM saying "When you look at the overall allocation of resources on the team, a huge percentage is working on web app improvements" https://twitter.com/jones206/status/1388162347059978243?s=20 https://twitter.com/jones206/status/1388162347059978243?s=20
- Zababa 5y agoThey don't have feature parity though. For example, power query doesn't work on mac.